SEOUL, South Korea- North Korea has fired a long-range ballistic missile, the South Korean military said Wednesday, days after Pyongyang threatened to down US spy planes that violated its airspace. Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points ever, with diplomacy stalled and...
VILNIUS, Lithuania— US President Joe Biden thanked his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday for his "courage" in dropping opposition to Sweden's entry to NATO. At a meeting during the NATO summit in Vilnius, Biden celebrated the conclusion of a major diplomatic push to get...
WASHINGTON, United States–U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday declared an emergency in Vermont as the state is being struck by catastrophic flooding. The White House said in a statement that Biden has ordered federal assistance to supplement the northeastern U.S. state and local response...
VILNIUS, Lithuania-- Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Tuesday failed to set a timetable for Ukraine's membership of the alliance, following the first day of the NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Speaking at a press conference, NATO Secretary-General Jens...
MOSCOW, Russia– The Kremlin said Monday that President Vladimir Putin had met with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin days after the mercenary group attempted to topple Russia's military leadership. The meeting in the Kremlin took place on June 29, several days after the short-lived rebellion....
MANILA, Philippines– The Philippines' total external trade in goods dropped by 5.1 percent in May 2023 to 17.28 billion U.S. dollars from 18.20 billion dollars in May 2022, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday. Of the total external trade in May, the agency said that 62.7...
PARIS, France– The beginning of July was the hottest week on record for the planet, according to early findings Monday from the World Meteorological Organization, after a series of scorching days saw global temperature records tumble. "The world just had the hottest week on record,...
SYDNEY, Australia- Networks of fake Facebook accounts run from China are "evolving" and adopting new tactics in their quest to sow discord overseas, the social media platform told Australian lawmakers Tuesday. Fronting a Senate inquiry into foreign interference, officials from parent company Meta...
ROME, Italy -- Rome and other cities across Italy were put on red alert on Monday as the country was bracing for an intense heatwave that meteorologists said was likely to break records. A man refreshes himself with water from the Barcaccia Fountain in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy, on July...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (AFP) UNITED NATIONS -- The world risks big misses across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) unless actions to accelerate implementation are taken, said a UN report released on Monday. Failure to redouble global efforts to achieve the SDGs may fuel...
The FSO Safer vessel is seen at Ras Issa port in Hodeidah province, Yemen, on May 30, 2023. (Xinhua) SANAA, Yemen -- The transfer of crude oil from the dilapidated tanker Safer, stranded off the coast of Yemen, is expected to start early next week, a United Nations humanitarian official said on...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Xinhua) VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Türkiye agreed to advance Sweden's accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Monday, a day before the alliance's summit in the Lithuanian capital, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced....
